Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Let thoughtless thousands choose the road
Topic: The Gospel/Faith and Repentance
Writer: <no first name given> Hopkins
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 338
Page Number: 211, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLet thoughtless thousands choose the road
That leads the soul away from God;
This happiness, blest Lord, be mine,
To live and die entirely thine.
On Christ, by faith, my soul would live,
From him my life, my all receive;
To him devote my fleeting hours,
Serve him alone with all my pow'rs.
Christ is my everlasting all;
To him I look, on him I call;
He will my ev'ry want supply
In time and through eternity.
Soon will the Lord, my life, appear;
Soon shall I end my trials here;
Leave sin and sorrow, death and pain;
To live is Christ, to die is gain.